Title: Towards participatory local governance : six propositions for discussion

Authors: Gaventa, John

Place: Uppsala

Publisher: Swedish university of agricultural sciences (SLU)

Year: 2002

Journal: Currents / Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

Volume: 28

PAGE: 29--35

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: institutional infrastructure, civil society, popular participation, democracy, governance, local government

Abstract: The author raises critical question by posing six propositions, e.g. on the need to construct new relationships between ordinary people and government institutions and on the need to re-conceptualize the meanings of participation and citizenship in relationship to local governance.

URL: http://www.slu.se/Documents/externwebben/overgripande-slu-dokument/popvet-dok/currents/Curr28.pdf#page=29

Document type: Portal